Feature stories, read aloud: Download the Audm app for your iPhone. In February of 2012, two duct-taped camping coolers—the kind you might take on a picnic—arrived at Delta Cargo, a freight-shipping warehouse on the northeast side of Detroit Metro airport. The airline’s ground crew tossed the…

As they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable time. His hair was matted upwards like a shrub. His…

The Trezor: January 4, 2016: 7.4 BTC = $3,000 In January 2016, I spent $3,000 to buy 7.4 bitcoins. At the time, it seemed an entirely worthwhile thing to do. I had recently started working as a research director at the Institute for the Future’s Blockchain Futures Lab, and I wanted firsthand…

In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. Inside, workers wear hairnets, hard hats, goggles, gloves, and earplugs. Ten…

This article is a collaboration between WIRED and Epic Magazine. Photographs by Cait Oppermann Love in the Time of Robots Hiroshi Ishi­guro builds androids. Beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. Academically, he is using them to understand the mechanics of person-to-person…

Published instrava-engineering · 9 min read· Nov 1, 2017 -- Our Global Heatmap is the largest, richest, and most beautiful dataset of its kind. It is a visualization of two years of trailing data from Strava’s global network of athletes. To give a sense of scale, the new heatmap consists of: 700…

It's easy to miss the mirror forge at the University of Arizona. While sizable, the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory sits in the shadow of the university's much larger 56,000-seat football stadium. Even its most distinctive feature—an octagonal concrete prominence emblazoned with the school's…

“ Are you getting enough physical activity? Are you going on any runs, playing any sports, or lifting any weights? I feel just great after a workout! You'll be happy in no time! What is with it with people expecting that a quick run will sort out your life? Like cool, activity releases endorphins…

Zu Beginn, bevor es losgeht, ein kleines Spiel. Ein paar Sätze, Sie entscheiden bitte jeweils, ob der Satz wahr ist oder falsch. Satz 1: "Reis existiert." Satz 2: "Alle Leser der ZEIT essen täglich ein Eis." Satz 3: "Jene Streifen, die Flugzeuge am Himmel hinter sich herziehen, sind gar keine…

Alles, was ich von meinem Kind noch habe, ist ein Stapel Papier. Zettel mit Telefonnummern, mit Ärztenamen draufgekritzelt, Befunde, Einwilligungen, Broschüren und ein Blatt, auf dem ich „Sammelbestattung“ angekreuzt und meine Kontaktdaten in Druckbuchstaben eingetragen habe. Die Papiere habe ich…

It’d be difficult to argue against the fact that The Simpsons isn’t quite the show it once was. Even just a quick glance at the IMDb ratings is enough to see that the show is routinely not hitting the highs it did so regularly in the earlier seasons. I’d suggest that the scale of the decline is…

Kennenlernen An einem Freitag, nach Mitternacht, ändert ein Chat zwei Leben: Mahmoud sitzt auf einem Sofa in einer Wohnung im Istanbuler Viertel Esenler. Auf seinem Smartphone loggt er sich auf Lovoo ein, einer Dating-Plattform. In seinem Profil hat er nur ein paar Fotos hochgeladen. Er wischt und…

Peter Hedman, Suhib Alsisan, Richard Szeliski and Johannes Kopf http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/casual3d We reconstruct 3D photos from casually captured cell phone or DSLR images: a panoramic, textured, normal mapped, multi-layered geometric mesh representation, that can be viewed with full…

AboKrogerus & Tschäppeler entwarnenIch nerve dich, weil ich dich liebe! Lassen Sie Ihre miese Laune manchmal auch an Ihren Liebsten aus? Keine Angst. Sie sind nicht allein. Das Phänomen hat sogar einen Namen: Der Benjamin-Effekt. AboSeiler stellt die MineralwasserfrageMit oder ohne Blöterli? Ist…

This is a recent live performance of Steve hamboning for members of the audience at the Childsplay performance "Live at the Zeiterion". Enjoy!

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12 min read· Oct 15, 2017 -- At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited about something. Dude had an energy. Noah worked across the hall from us on the sixth floor of a old…

Emma Perrier spent the summer of 2015 mending a broken heart, after a recent breakup. By September, the restaurant manager had grown tired of watching The Notebook alone in her apartment in Twickenham, a leafy suburb southwest of London, and decided it was time to get back out there. Despite the…

Nadja Stadlers Tochter ist eine der jüngsten auf dem Alten St.-Matthäus- Kirchhof. Abort in der 12. Schwangerschaftswoche, sagte die Frauenärztin nüchtern. Und: „Sie können ja wieder Kinder kriegen.“ Dann drückte sie ihr eine Kiste in die Hand, eine Gewebeprobe, wie sie erklärte, die sie in der…

Their first date was at Houston’s, a restaurant in Irvine, where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell had taken pains to look good. Her cornsilk-blond hair fell in…

Save video Gender A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application 16 minutes Save video Computing and artificial intelligence Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators 8 minutes Save video Sports and games Havana’s streets become…

It was a half hour after midnight and Silvino Cubesare Quimare was approaching the ghost town of Separ, in southwest New Mexico. Tall and lithe, his skin browned from years of laboring under the desert sun, he strode through the darkness. Strapped to his back were two homespun burlap packs, one…

Wharton School professor and author Adam Grant argues that kids are too often sheltered from struggle. In this short interview at the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival, Grant recommends that parents seek advice from their children so that they can practice responding to adversity. Subscribe to The Atlantic…

Morgens um zehn Uhr am 1. Mai 2017 in Wien: In einem Parkhaus am Rande der Innenstadt stehen acht Männer Anfang zwanzig, zwei Frauen um die dreißig und ein älterer Herr mit weißen Haaren um ein Pappschild und mehrere rote, mit Helium gefüllte Ballons und schauen ratlos. Das Schild will einfach nicht…

You and your good buddy, Steve Steveington, are in training for an arduous charity walk. You signed up together on the spur of the moment and pledged to hold each other accountable whilst you got in shape for the big day. However, you have developed reason to suspect that Steve Steveington is losing…

Vimeo About Vimeo Vimeo Blog Vimeo Guidelines Partners Students Developers Jobs Help Help Center Video School More On Demand Upload Features Site Map Upgrade Vimeo Plus Vimeo PRO Vimeo Business Vimeo Live Vimeo OTT Refer a friend Did you know? We can help you avoid severe migraines by gently walking…

I was told that the most interesting man in the world works in the archives division of the New York Public Library, and so I went there, one morning this summer, to meet him. My guide, who said it took her a year to learn how to get around the Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street, led us to an…

Mark Zuckerberg had just returned from paternity leave, and he wanted to talk about Facebook, democracy, and elections and to define what he felt his creation owed the world in exchange for its hegemony. A few weeks earlier, in early September, the company’s chief security officer had admitted that…

“In Hokkaido where I live, winters are harsh and snows are deep,” says photographer Eiji Ohashi . “Every day can become rather inconvenient” due to the constant snowfall. But heavy snows also bring wi

Es gibt nur wenige Menschen auf dieser Welt, die auferstanden sind aus ihrem Grab, Salvador Dalí ist einer von ihnen. 28 Jahre nach seinem Tod kam er als Mumie zurück auf die Erde und trug seinen Bart, wie er ihn immer trug, die Spitzen seiner Zwirbel auf die Schläfen gerichtet. Ein Gericht hatte…

Why is it so hard to swat a fly? 16 September 2017 Rory GallowayScience writer Science Photo Library Try to swat a fly and it will soon become clear that they're faster than you. Much faster. But how on Earth do these tiny creatures - with their minuscule brains - outwit us so easily? You've…

At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discovery for a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, and today we’ve published a new private contact discovery service. Using this service, Signal clients will be able to efficiently and…

Hilfe, mein Kind trotzt - wie lernt es mit seiner Wut umzugehen? Ich weiß noch, dass der erste Wutanfall einer meiner Töchter mich unvorbereitet traf wie ein Schlag aus dem Nichts. Mein Kind war 14 Monate alt, wir hatten im Bio-Laden gerade eingekauft und sie gebärdete "Keks!". Ich gab ihr einen…

Follow my adventures on Instagram! http://instagram.com/Jeffrey.hk Dropped new timelapse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JBMpzW_B58 Hi all, i built a 24K resolution 360 camera specifically for upcoming 360 timelapse project. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fseH9Kd5ooM If you'd like…

Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Signal’s at times elusive privacy revolutionary Moxie Marlinspike spoke modestly about how his secure text message app is taking over the world. Marlinspike dire